[OmniOS-discuss] NEED FEEDBACK: VIM8 and "vi" behavior

[David Ledger]

> On 18 Oct 2016, at 18:40, Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:
> 
> VIM8 is in the omnios-build master branch for next-bloody and r151020.
> 
> VIM8's defaults are more VIM-like and less classic-VI like.
> 
> Would it kill people if I made "vi" act like "vim -C"?  Or would that be MORE surprising?
> 
> Curious,
> Dan

As long as I can configure things so that I have a vi that works like that in Bsd 4.3 it’s ok. The thing I fall over most often is the simple ^U^U to scroll back to the last change. It’s muscle memory and loses me two changes on some versions.

David - Unix since ‘83